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1 or persons in control, or any person in the employ of such 



2 owner or lessee or person in control, shall receive any com- 



3 pensation under this act for extinguishing or controlling fire 



4 occurring upon or threatening the lands of such owner or 



5 lessee or person in control. 



6 SEC. 14. In addition to the penalties provided by the forest 



7 laws, the United States, state, county, or private owners, whose 



8 property is injured or destroyed by fires, may recover in a 



9 civil action double the amount of damages suffered, if the 



10 fires occurred through wilfulness, malice, or negligence; but 



11 if such fires were caused, or escaped, accidentally or unavoid- 



12 ably, civil action shall lie only for the actual damage sustained 



13 as determined by the value of the property injured or de- 



14 stroyed and the detriment to the land and vegetation thereof. 



15 SEC. 15. All moneys recovered under the provisions of the 



16 penal sections of the forest laws of this state shall be paid, less 



17 the costs of and compensation for collection, into the treasury 



18 of the county in which such money was collected. 



19 SEC. 16. Every firewarden appointed under the provisions 



20 of this act shall be provided by the state forester with a badge 



21 of authority which shall be produced whenever demand is 



22 made for such production. 



23 SEC. 17. Wherever in the forest laws of the state the per- 



24 formance or non-performance of any act or thing is made a 



25 misdemeanor, the person, or the officer, member, manager, 



26 agent, director or employee of any firm, association, or cor- 



27 poration who shall direct the performance or non-performance 



28 of such act or thing is likewise and in the same manner guilty 



29 of a misdemeanor and shall be punished in a like manner as 



30 the person actually performing or not performing such act or 



31 thing. 



32 SEC. 18. For the purpose of this act the word "forest" 



33 shall be taken to mean and to comprise lands wholly or in part 



34 covered with timber, brush or other similar vegetation. 



35 SEC. 19. Chapter 264 of the laws of 1905 and all acts or 



36 parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are 



37 hereby repealed. 

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